Plaud has up to date its compact NotePin AI recorder. The brand new NotePin S is nearly equivalent to the unique, apart from one main distinction: a button. It’s joined by a brand new Plaud Desktop app for recording audio in on-line conferences, which is free to homeowners of any Plaud Word or NotePin.
The NotePin S has the identical FitBit-esque design because the 2024 original and ships with a lanyard, wristband, clip, and magnetic pin, so you may put on it nearly any means you please — now all included within the field, whereas earlier than the lanyard and wristband have been offered individually.
It’s about the identical dimension because the NotePin, is available in the identical colours (black, purple, or silver), provides related battery life, and nonetheless helps Apple Discover My. Just like the NotePin, it data audio and generates transcriptions and summaries, whether or not these are assembly notes, motion factors, or reminders.
However now it has a button. Whereas the primary NotePin used haptic controls, counting on a protracted squeeze to start out recording, with a brief buzz to let you already know it labored, the S switches to one thing less complicated. A protracted press of the button begins recording, a brief faucet provides spotlight markers. Plaud’s rationalization for the change is easy: buttons are much less ambiguous, so that you’ll all the time know you’ve efficiently pressed it and began recording, whereas unique NotePin customers complained they generally did not report as a result of they hadn’t squeezed excellent.
AI recorders like this dwell or die by ease of use, so eradicating slightly friction offers Plaud higher odds of survival.
Alongside the NotePin S, Plaud is launching a brand new Mac and PC utility for recording the audio from on-line conferences. Plaud Desktop runs within the background and prompts at any time when it detects calls from apps together with Zoom, Meet, and Groups, recording each system audio and out of your microphone. You may set it to both report conferences robotically or require guide activation, and in contrast to some alternate options it doesn’t create a bot that joins the decision with you.
Recordings and notes are synced with these from Plaud’s line of {hardware} recorders, with the identical fashions used for transcription and era, making a “seamless” library of audio out of your conferences, each on-line and off.
Plaud Desktop is accessible now and is free to anybody who already owns a Plaud Word or NotePin gadget. The brand new NotePin S can be accessible right this moment, for $179 — $20 greater than the unique, which Plaud says will now be phased out.
